Mike  Fladlien: Masterful Financial Literacy Instruction in the Heartland

Mike Fladlien is a teacher at Muscatine High School in Muscatine, Iowa. Mr. Fladlien teaches Business, Business Law, Economics, Computer Applications, and (Business) Logistics there. Mr. Fladlien blogs on Finance and Economics Education: Micro-economics at http://www.mikeroeconomics.blogspot.com/ and at http://teachingapeconomics.blogspot.com/. He has had 8 lessons accepted and published on the EconEdLink web-based resource.

Mike’s Materials at EconEdLink
http://www.econedlink.org/about-us/about-EconEdLink-authors.php?aid=272

Mike’s Blogs

- Mikroecomonics: www.mikeroeconomics.blogspot.com

• AP Economics: Resources for Teaching Advanced Placement Economic: http://teachingapeconomics.blogspot.com/
• Mike’s Profile: http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Mike-Fladlien-16/Teaching-Experience

Article about Mike in The Muscatine Journal: http://muscatinejournal.com/news/local/article_96dbe4d4-299f-11e1-94f4-001871e3ce6c.htm

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Mack Lewis: Creator of the Checkbook Project

Another exciting Talking Fin Lit episode with vital free resources as we interview Mack Lewis, a board certified teacher working in Oregon. Mack describes her development of Class Money: The Checkbook Project, a unique model for using the Micro Society instructional context to model and teach Financial Literacy. It is a free resource, a complete guide for teachers with support materials, available in downloadable format online.

Links for this interview:

• Mack’s link and profile at Teachers Pay Teachers: http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/search?keyword=Checkbook+project&subjectarea=0&startsearch=1 http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Class-Money-The-Checkbook-Project-class-economy-financial-literacy
• Mack’s professional profile:  http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Mack-Lewis/Teaching-Experience
• Mack’s own website with Checkbook Project resources: http://macklewis.com/checkbook-project/

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An Interview with Jennifer Allen, Jump$tart Teacher of the Year

Jennifer Allen was selected as the first State of Kentucky, Jumpstart Financial Literacy – Teacher of the Year. She is a teacher at Madison Southern High School in Berea, Kentucky where she teaches Business and Marketing courses and runs the school bank and school store programs. She has presented to colleagues on using free resources for teaching various aspects of Financial Literacy (see her presentation PowerPoint below). Ms. Allen’s work as a Financial Literacy educator provides an important model, as she teaches both formal classes, and runs school-based activities (the bank and store) that provide important opportunities to apply what’s learned in the courses as well as other content, hands-on. In this interview Jennifer describes how she runs her program, identifies important free resources she’s found for it, and gives important advice on how to run a highly successful Fin Lit program on the high school level.

Links:

• Kentucky Teacher – (Posted November 2011)
  http://www.kentuckyteacher.org/news/2010/11/ky-jumptart-names-financial-literacy-teacher-of-the-year/
• If It’s Free, It’s For Me (PowerPoint) attached
• Junior Achievement http://www.ja.org/
• The Economics of Seinfeld (Yada Yada Yada Econ.com) http://yadayadayadaecon.com/
• National Endowment for Financial Education (Nefe) http://www.nefe.org/

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Looking Back and Ahead-

The Future is…

About Financial Literacy Education!

Resources Related to this Episode

ON THE ROAD

Upcoming Events by Kathy and Mark

• USF Faculty Presentation on Podcasting- Tampa, FL March 23, 2011- Dr. Kathy King
• Dr. King’s Induction into Hall of Fame for International Adult and Continuing Education- Dr. King, Toronto, Canada, April 6-8, 2011
• NCEA Conference Presentation – New Orleans, LA, April 26-27, 2011- Dr. Kathy King
• AERC-CASAE Conference Presentation- Toronto, Canada, June 9-12, 2011- Dr. Kathy King
• ISTE Conference Presentation – Philadelphia, PA, June 26-29, 2011- Dr. Kathy King
• International Technology Conference- Portugal – July 2011- Dr. King (not yet confirmed)
• Distance Learning Conference – Madison WI – Aug 2-4, 2011 Dr. King (not yet confirmed)
• Educause Conference -Dr. King (not yet confirmed)

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[Photo By Michael Patrick, Knoxville (Tenn.) News Sentinel]

Resources Related to this Episode

• Article in USA Today:
  • When students at Carter High School in Strawberry Plains, Tenn., forget their lunch money, they don’t have to worry about going hungry.Instead, they wander over to one of the five tellers who work at the student-run bank, where they can withdraw money from their savings accounts or fill out short applications for a $5 loan, all without leaving the building, says Lynn Raymond, a banking and finance teacher at the school.
  • Read more here: http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2010-03-31-schoolbanks_N.htm

• Carter High School in Strawberry Plains, Tennessee –
  • http://carterhs.knoxschools.org/

ON THE ROAD

Upcoming Events by Kathy and Mark

• USF Faculty Presentation- Tampa, FL Feb 23, 2011- Dr. Kathy King
• Induction into Hall of Fame for International Adult and Continung Education- Dr. King, Toronto, Canada, April 6-8, 2011
• NCEA Conference Presentation – New Orleans, LA, April 26-27, 2011- Dr. Kathy King
• AERC-CASAE Conference Presentation- Toronto, Canada, June 9-12, 2011- Dr. Kathy King
• ISTE Conference Presentation – Philadelphia, PA, June 26-29, 2011- Dr. Kathy King
• International Technology conference- Portugal – July 2011- Dr. King (not yet confirmed)

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Dave discusses how financial literacy is a major issue for students as they advance to college. Indeed recent reports prove that the major reason students drop out of college is not academics, but Oops! We almost gave it away!

You have to listen in to find out, won’t you?

W!SE stands for Working in Support of Education and it is a member of the (McGraw Hill) Financial Literacy Now Partnership.

Quote from W!SE website:

“Most students drop out of college not because of academic failure but because of …….

and the fastest growing group filing personal bankruptcy is in the age group…………….”

Resources for this Episode

• W!SE website URL: http://www.wise-ny.org/
• Financial Literacy Now Partnership http://www.financiallitnow.org/
• W!SE embraces the NY STATE DEPT. of ED Curriculum “Economics, the Enterprise System, and Finance” (free, downloadable PDF) @ http://emsc.nysed.gov/ciai/socst/pub/economics.pdf

Related Article:

• “Majoring in credit-card debt: Aggressive on-campus marketing by lenders is coming under fire”
  • http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20607411/

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ON THE ROAD

Upcoming Events by Kathy and Mark

• TSEA Conference Keynote- Austin TX – Jan 27, 2011- Dr. Kathy King
• FETC Conference Presentation- Orlando, FL, Feb 3, 2011- Dr. Kathy King
• USF Faculty Presentation- Tampa, FL Feb 23, 2011- Dr. Kathy King
• NCEA Conference Presentation – New Orleans, LA, April 26-27, 2011- Dr. Kathy King
• AERC-CSAE Conference Presentation- Toronto, Canada, June 9-12, 2011- Dr. Kathy King
• ISTE Conference Presentation – Philadelphia, PA, June 26-29, 2011- Dr. Kathy King

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Rod Hames is a teacher at Crews Middle School in Lawrenceville, Georgia, teaching Computer Science and  Business. Mark met Rod at the ISTE 2010 Conference in Denver where both were presenting. Rod has distinguished himself in teaching the Stock Market and numerous other aspects of business and economics by developing creative ways to make these subjects come alive for today’s middle school students. An area of particular interest in Rod’s work is his use of research into student engagement which he applies to the teaching of financial literacy.

Continuing the global conversation about personal

financial literacy for educators on

Talking Financial Literacy Podcast

Resources and Articles Mentioned

• Rod’s class website:
• http://www.crews.org/curriculum/ex/compsci/

Rod’s ISTE Presentation Link(s):

Session Title “Stock Market Simulations: Bullish on Engagement, Blogs, and Brainy Work”

• LINK
  

Session PowerPoint:

• PPT LINK

All Terrain Brain

• http://www.allterrainbrain.org/

Stock Mkt game

• at Crews Middle School

Hot Shot Business

• http://www.allterrainbrain.org/

Virtual Stock Exchange

• http://www.virtualstockexchange.com/Game/Homepage.aspx

Biz Kids

• http://www.bizkids.com/show.aspx

Student Engagement Links and References

• Student Engagement Links and References

• Student Engagement Research Data- Comparing Middle Grade Student Engagement All Classes to Technology Project Based Learning

• Student Engagement Interviews Summary

Facebook page for Financial Literacy:

Welcome to the Talking Financial Literacy Community @ Facebook . We hope folks will join us to share links, photos, comments and discussion. But the discussion board will especially be a space to share resources, plans for integrating financial literacy in classes and support as all of us pose new ideas. ho will be first and second to share who

they are, their basic interests in this area and any needs or resources?

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ON THE ROAD

Upcoming

• AAACE Clearwater, FL Presentations (several on technology) – Oct. 24-29, 2010 – Dr. Kathy King
• TSEA Conference- Austin TX – Jan 27, 2011- Dr. Kathy King
• FETC Orlando, FL presentation Feb 3, 2011- Dr. Kathy King

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Continuing the global conversation about personal

financial literacy for educators on

Talking Financial Literacy Podcast

Resources and Articles Mentioned 

• Financial Lit Now.com

• Foxbusiness.com “what to say to your kids”
  

• Great You Tube video
  • Why We Should Teach “Personal Financial Education” (Financial Literacy) in Schools

•  Financial Literacy Supplements from NIE
  • Are you ready for the real world?
  • Be Money $mart
  • Consumer Jungle Teacher Guide….
  • and much more
    

Facebook page for Financial Literacy:

Welcome to the Talking Financial Literacy Community @ Facebook . We hope folks will join us to share links, photos, comments and discussion. But the discussion board will especially be a space to share resources, plans for integrating financial literacy in classes and support as all of us pose new ideas. ho will be first and second to share who

they are, their basic interests in this area and any needs or resources?

Invitation for Listeners to Participate in the Show

Listen to the details in episode 26 and then email Mark and Kathy about what you have to share. Email us at podcast ( at) talkingfinlit.org

ON THE ROAD – Coming Events

• April 2010 — Kathy at NCEA 2010 (St Paul MN)
• —- Kathy at Purdue University (IN)
• April – June 2010 –Kathy at RTI SUMMIT  @Dallas, Chicago & Orlando
• May 2010- Kathy NYCABE Keynote NYCity
• May 2010 — Kathy at AERA 2010 (Denver, CO)
• June 2010 — Mark and Kathy at ISTE NECC 2010 (Denver, CO)

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• What were their surprises as they wrap up the first segment of the series?
• How can teachers best make use of the series?
• What needs and gaps did they uncover in the journey of exploring financial literacy resources?
• How has our world of economics and politics transformed during this 12-16 months?
• What could a sequel series of segments offer?

This episode becomes a fun, quick-paced recap of great resources, highlights and packs in more surprises for our listeners, both new and returning! Join us for this  comprehensive episode.

 Continuing the global conversation about personal

financial literacy for educators on

Talking Financial Literacy Podcast

Resources discussed in this episode:

• Our archive of illustrious guests and episodes     
  • Convenient: Available on demand:  24/7
  • Portable: Take use with you via MP3 player, iPod, cell phone or CD
  • Flexible: Use for teacher PD, student enrichment, parent and adult education classes

• We express a special thanks to the McGraw-Hill Companies who have so graciously sponsored this first round of the series as a philanthropic effort. Thank you for offering such a rich resource for teachers, students, community and parents.  ~~ Kathy & Mark
  

• We expect to be providing some more resources on this topic in the near future based on discussions with potential supporters. ~~ Kathy & Mark

• Keep this feed live in your feedreader and podcast reader (iTunes, etc) and check back to the site for updates and announcements!)
  

• We wish you all success in bringing financial literacy lifelong learning to life for your students!
  

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Join us for a vibrant interview with an experienced New York City teacher and administrator. Josephine Urso provides grounding and insightful examples of how financial literacy is incorporated into school curriculum, rather than isolated projects or after school programs. Deep insights offered as Kathy and Mark debrief on the interview and how teachers and schools can use this information to refine current and develop new financial literacy programs and connections.

Recommendations for Teacher and School Action

Benefit from an experienced perspective about urgency and recommendations for infusing financial literacy in the curriculum.

Resources in this Episode

• If you are working on bringing financial literacy into your curriculum be sure to visit
  • Prior 22 episodes mentioned the archive has resources, curriculum and other interviews

• Fin lit standards based lesson plans linked at Practical Money Guides for Life

SPECIAL FEATURE

Listener Submission:  

• IRS – Understanding Taxes
  • http://www.irs.gov/app/understandingTaxes/index.jsp

If you go into the teachers part there is an excellent series of lessons on taxes that include why pay taxes, the history of taxes and the nuts and bolts of how to pay taxes.

Check out the stuff on the bottom of the following url http://www.irs.gov/app/understandingTaxes/teacher/whys.jsp

Submitted by listener and teacher:
John Kalnberg, teacher, Sage Day School, Rochelle Park, NJ.

 

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